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Studies in Medievalism XIII
Postmodern Medievalisms
Edited by Richard Utz
Edited by Jesse G. Swan


Bringing together significant statements on postmodern qualities of the invocation of the medieval, Postmodern Medievalisms is a cross-disciplinary and international collection. The volume also effects a critically celebratory appreciation of the intellectual and political possibilities of the many inchoate modes implicit in various acts of 'postmodern' scholarship. The essays treat texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, and together they indicate, broadly, what is happening both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism. The fourteen essays of the collection are organized into four sections, Music (including Pavel Chinizul, Negru Voda, Arvo Part), Art and Architecture (contemporary architecture, Robert Rauschenberg and more), Cinema (Tolkien, Bresson, 'Braveheart' among the matters discussed), and Literature (including Sir John Mandeville, Marco Polo, Marvel, Naomi Mitchison). Contributors: FLORIN CURTA, PAUL MURPHY, LEOPOLD BRAUNEISS, JOHN M. GANIM, KARL FUGELSO, VERLYN FLIEGER, WILLIAM D. PADEN, BRTIAN LEVY, LESLEY COOTE, A.E. CHRISTA CANITZ, JENNIFER COOLEY, PAUL SMETHURST, ELENA LEVY-NAVAFRO, ANITA OBERMEIER. SYLVIA MITTLER.

 

DETAILS

256 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
10 digit ISBN: 184384012X
13 digit ISBN: 9781843840121
Binding: Hardback
First published: 10/Nov/2005
Price: 80.00 USD / 40.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Subject: Medieval Literature

BIC class: CSB

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 08/05/2008

Contents
1   Pavel Chinezul, Negru Voda, and `Imagined Communities': Medievalism in Romanian Rock Music
Florin Curta
2   Disparate Medievalisms in Early Modern Spanish Music Theory
Paul Murphy
3   Arvo Pärt's Tintinnabuli Style: Contemporary Music Towards a New Middle Ages?
Leopold Brauneiss
4   Medievalism, Modernism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Architecture
John M Ganim
5   Robert Rauschenberg's Inferno Illuminations
Karl Fugelso
6   A Distant Mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the Looking-glass
Verlyn Flieger
7   I Learned It at the Movies: Teaching Medieval Film
8   The Subversion of Medievalism in Lancelot du lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail [with Lesley Coote]
Brian Levy ***DECEASED***
8   The Subversion of Medievalism in Lancelot du lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail [with Brian Levy]
Lesley A Coote
9   `Historians...Will Say I Am a Liar': The Ideology of False Truth Claims in Mel Gibson's Braveheart and Luc Besson's The Messenger
Christa A. E. Canitz
10   Games for the Nation: A Postmodern Reading of Alfonso X's Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas
Jenneifer Cooley
11   The Journey from Modern to Postmodern in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Marco Polo's Divisament dou Monde
Paul Smethurst
12   History Straight and Narrow: Marvell, Mary Fairfax, and the Critique of Sexual and Historical Sequence
Elena Levy-Navarro
13   Postmodernism and the Press in Naomi Mitchison's To the Chapel Perilous
Anita Obermeier
14   The Crusades and Frankish Medieval Greece as (Re)appropriation: Carnivalesque Histiographic and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos
Sylvia Mittler

Reviews
An especially rich collection of essays. ARTHURIANA



 

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